Upload image profile photo and associate to "profilePhoto" attribute in User entity with Spring

Question

Guys I have an entity that way:

I am using Spring Boot and Postman to instantiate new User class objects

@EqualsAndHashCode(onlyExplicitlyIncluded = true)
@Entity
@Table(name = "tb_users")
public class User implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @EqualsAndHashCode.Include
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name = "cod_user")
    private Long id;

    @Column(name = "name")
    private String name;

    @Column(name = "gender")
    private String gender;

    @Column(name = "birthday")
    private LocalDate birthday;

    @OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
    @JoinColumn(name = "cod_address", unique = true)
    private Address address;

    private ??? profilePhoto;

My question is: How to upload an image and associate it to the profilePhoto attribute, so that when I instantiate a new object I can insert this profile image in the user’s creation?

NOTE: I am not using Spring MVC or Thymeleaf, only Spring Boot and making the requests via Postman, in which case to create a new instance I am passing a JSON:

{
    "name": "Gui",
    "gender": "male",
    "birthday": "1998-12-12",
    "address":{
        "address": "Rua da Neves",
        "city": "Niterói",
        "state": "Rio de Janeiro",
        "postalCode": "579777-90",
        "country": "Brazil"
    },
    "profilePhoto": ???

How can I pass in my User Controller a way to create this image and associate to the profilePhoto attribute?

@PostMapping("/create")
@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.CREATED)
public Person create(@RequestBody Person person) { 
    return personService.create(person); 
}

Answer 1

The rest of your JSON vc sends in the body of the request normally.